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"History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes."

If you're not aware of what's going on Aftermath have an excellent write-up:
https://aftermath.site/sweet-baby-detected-conspiracy-theory-steam

Currently another right-wing harassment campaign is raging and it keeps escalating, drawing wider circles every day. At the heart is a small consultancy company, called Sweet Baby Inc. They are accused of "destroying games with diversity and inclusivity". It is - of course - conspiratorial nonsense, the company isn't even doing what the chuds accuse them of. The fake outrage is yet again a pretext to spout hate and revel in sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia.

If all of this feels familiar to those who have been around the last time, that's because it is: 2024's Gators have fully the moniker of "GamerGate 2.0"

In the tenth year since GamerGate, we're seeing a repeat of it in the harassment campaign against narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc. The same forces that set off the initial one have changed their language and targets, but the reactionary current is back, only strengthened in the intervening years, and still enabled by a corporate class that cares more about profit margins than worker well being.

This campaign - like in 2014 - is a part of the larger right-wing attack against anything that their fascist ideology disapproves of. Like the last time, they choose a small group to punish and harass in order to send a wider message. This needs to be stopped. But what we get instead is yet another failure of management class: Valve and Discord who own the platforms where (currently) the majority of the harassment is organized, have yet to take any measure. All we can do at the moment is to support each other and oppose the fascists.

So to SBI and its workers, solidarity, always.

~ The Ghazi mod team

PPS: Free Palestine

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X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

Archived: https://archive.is/NFXsX

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Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.

Archived: https://archive.is/17fmj

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Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the world

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Ubisoft's first North American union, located at their Halifax, Nova Scotia studio, was certified on December 18th, 2025. Now, not even a full 30 days later, Ubisoft Halifax is closing.

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Rockstar's alleged union busting has provoked protests and drawn skepticism from legislators.

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Crusaders pushing social media censorship and banning teens online are admitting that “mental health” is a coverup for suppressing dissent and young people’s progressive politics.

Archived: https://archive.ph/0unjm

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People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

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In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directed from the very top and the damage this legitimization of bigotry has done

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Bots are gambling on games like Dota 2 and LoL via Polymarket

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On Monday, US officials must explain what steps they took to enforce shocking visa bans.

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'South Park' creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who this summer landed one of the richest TV deals ever, are in a standoff with performers at their Casa Bonita restaurant near Denver.

Archived version: https://archive.is/ZqrWV

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I think, for white Americans, the indigenous peoples they displaced to colonize what would become the United States aren’t real people. Instead, they are supplemental creatures in a myth of American exceptionalism: the wolf that eats grandma; the wind at the door. They are props for enlightenment, triggers of guilt. Once conquered through disease, genocide, broken treaties, and other nasty tricks born of avarice and cupidity,

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What are the trends in comics censorship over the last year? A look at the data and titles being targeted, with help from a comics scholar.

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Sajam called the choice "bad for me financially."

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A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.

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Games such as Dragon Quest used to mobilize workers to back corporate goals including relaxing environmental rules

Archived: https://archive.is/ednSR

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The Last of Us studio has notoriously struggled with overwork on previous projects

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Getting ready the morning of a convention has never gotten any less chaotic for C.J. Stiles. They wake up, find whatever source of caffeine they can and

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"I'm pretty close to death right now," laughs Masayoshi Soken.

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"The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back"

Archived: https://archive.ph/jm2g8

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submitted 3 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/ghazi

I decided to do some research on such online harassment campaigns. What I noticed that there are multiple online harassment campaigns that, similarly to Gamergate:

  • start on some levels of misinformation, usually by twisting the words or actions of the target,
  • the harassers control the narrative online by attacking anyone daring to oppose it in any way of form, by further harassment,
  • the harassers not satisfied until the main target (and often the newer targets) are ran off the internet, or some other demands are met.

I know that 4chan had a few rounds with harassment campaigns of the past, and I also have some suspicion that some 4chan users really wanted to chase the Project Chanology fame, but failing miserably. I did notice that some people have a weirdly specific brand of "mental health activism", that seems like it was made around the fact that the Church of Scientology was strongly anti-psychiatry, with some of those people even being leftists. I however do not remember too much of it, save for that they allegedly caused some teen girls commit suicide.

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Long before LibsofTikTok and Elon Musk called on parents to cancel Netflix, cartoons were already on the tail end of their queer renaissance.

Archived version: https://archive.is/9rr2A

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